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. >> republican senator mitch mcconnell today on why democrats should not change the senate rules in order to stop his minority republican party from controlling what happens in the senate. joining us now for the interview is sherrod brown, senator from ohio who just won reelection, even though he got buried in ads run against him. senator brown, congratulations on your reelection. i haven't seen you since. >> thank you, rachel. and i heard you call the race on your show, so thank you. >> ta da! if you are going to be in the senate for another six years now, i have to ask you directly, should the rules in the senate change there on day one in january? >> yeah, absolutely. the same gentleman you just listened to, mitch mcconnell, talked about the dysfunction in the senate. that's what's happened the last four years. he was the same gentleman who said after the 2010 elections that his number one goal was to defeat the president of the united states in the next election. and he did everything to do that, including invoking filibuster time after time after time after time. we have never
. >> republican senator mitch mcconnell today on why democrats should not change the senate rules in order to stop his minority republican party from controlling what happens in the senate. joining us now for the interview is sherrod brown, senator from ohio who just won reelection, even though he got buried in ads run against him. senator brown, congratulations on your reelection. i haven't seen you since. >> thank you, rachel. and i heard you call the race on your show, so thank...
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mitch mcconnell quoted robert bird today saying that bird would have wanted these rule changes. is he correct? >> it's hard to speculate. senator bird is no longer with us and we can only imagine what he'd be saying. when senator bird was elected to the senate in 1959; in that congress there was one filibuster for the entire congress. in the last congress, there was 137. so while robert was an institutionalist and wanted to protect the senate, he couldn't have imagined a situation that we find ourselves in now. which is one where republicans are filibustering every bill of any consequence. neither could the founding fathers. the senate wasn't designed to work this way. >> senator bird would not want these rule changes, would be going against what the democrats want right now. the bottom line here is the danger in changing the filibuster rule. i mean i see both sides of it. let them go ahead and filibuster politically with the american people. the next election cycle is going to come around and the republicans could pay a heavy price in the next election. the question is, is it w
mitch mcconnell quoted robert bird today saying that bird would have wanted these rule changes. is he correct? >> it's hard to speculate. senator bird is no longer with us and we can only imagine what he'd be saying. when senator bird was elected to the senate in 1959; in that congress there was one filibuster for the entire congress. in the last congress, there was 137. so while robert was an institutionalist and wanted to protect the senate, he couldn't have imagined a situation that we...
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you have senate leader for your party mitch mcconnell. they're both saying, hang on, he needs to get in there and negotiate. but i want to point this out, congresswoman, let me point this out, this is from erskine bowles today. we talked about ad nauseam of the simpson/bowles debt committee and this is erskine bowles about to meet with the president yesterday, and he later said that the president expressed flexibility on tax rates. let me quote him, bowles is quoted as saying, i didn't sense it, i heard it. he went on to say, quote, the white house really believes at its core that new tax revenue ought to come from the wealthy. but, according to "usa today," he went on to say the president is open to republican alternatives. open to republican alternatives. you're there on the hill. are you hearing anything like that? >> we have not been invited to present those alternatives and we do have them. cleaning up the tax code is a great place to begin. and looking at what you're going to do with closing some of these loopholes. we all know that
you have senate leader for your party mitch mcconnell. they're both saying, hang on, he needs to get in there and negotiate. but i want to point this out, congresswoman, let me point this out, this is from erskine bowles today. we talked about ad nauseam of the simpson/bowles debt committee and this is erskine bowles about to meet with the president yesterday, and he later said that the president expressed flexibility on tax rates. let me quote him, bowles is quoted as saying, i didn't sense...
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when mitch mcconnell said my number one agenda item is to defeat this president, harry reid didn't si that when george bush came to him with the stimulus. i do not find this playing on both the houses appropriate. >> he did call him a liar and -- pretty bitter times in there as well. >> but he also worked with him to get a stimulus, worked with him to pass the tarp when he asked us to, worked with them -- the whole period of 2007 and 2008 there was a great deal of cooperation on areas that i'm familiar with. >> do you remember good old days? >> i do remember good old days. just to put it in context, let's say, when i arrived in 1989 from connecticut, where we have politics. i was surprised at how partisan congress was. i saw it in some foreign policy questions where i didn't expect to find it, and i would say over the years congress has become more partisan. the last two years probably the most partisan and the least productive. throughout all that, a lot of great moments. first president bush, 41, they convened a group, worked for weeks, passed amendments to clean air act, not only c
when mitch mcconnell said my number one agenda item is to defeat this president, harry reid didn't si that when george bush came to him with the stimulus. i do not find this playing on both the houses appropriate. >> he did call him a liar and -- pretty bitter times in there as well. >> but he also worked with him to get a stimulus, worked with him to pass the tarp when he asked us to, worked with them -- the whole period of 2007 and 2008 there was a great deal of cooperation on...
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we have mitch mcconnell. get them in the room. no one gets all they want. if reagan and o'neill could do it, obama and boehner should be able to do it. >> it's the right approach, the one most beneficial for our economy, that protects the middle class and strengthens it and creates ladders of opportunity for those who aspire to the middle, to get there. >> it's time for the president to present a plan that rises above the reckless and radical voices on the hard left, that goes beyond the talking points of the campaign trail, and that has a realistic chance of passing the congress. the time, in other words, for campaigning is over. it's time for the president to lead. >> when you're $16 trillion in debt, the only pledge we should be making to each other is to avoid becoming greece. and republicans should put revenue on the table. so i agree we shouldn't raise rates, but grover is wrong when it comes to we can't cap deductions and buy down debt. what do you do with the money? i will violate the pledge, long story short, for the good of the country, only if de
we have mitch mcconnell. get them in the room. no one gets all they want. if reagan and o'neill could do it, obama and boehner should be able to do it. >> it's the right approach, the one most beneficial for our economy, that protects the middle class and strengthens it and creates ladders of opportunity for those who aspire to the middle, to get there. >> it's time for the president to present a plan that rises above the reckless and radical voices on the hard left, that goes...
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we sent out language to speaker boehner, to mitch mcconnell's office, to the white house and secretary geithner yesterday and to others. what we're trying to show we can deal with this issue. so many people in the house and senate want to kick the can down the road and take another six months looking at the options. we all know what the options are. the menu is actually going to diminish as time goes on and choices we'll have to make will be even more draconian as we pile up more and more debt. bill: you say do it sooner rather than later? >> do it now. bill: how do you handle entitlement reforms, medicare, medicaid? how do you tackle it? >> that is the reason we've written a 242-page bill that lays all of that out that shows technically it is very easy to do this. what this takes is political courage. i think what the country hired all of us to do and to solve this problem, put it in the rear view mirror and let's start january focused on the greatness of this nation and putting in place policies that will cause us to be stronger. so i'm advocating us not kicking the can down the road
we sent out language to speaker boehner, to mitch mcconnell's office, to the white house and secretary geithner yesterday and to others. what we're trying to show we can deal with this issue. so many people in the house and senate want to kick the can down the road and take another six months looking at the options. we all know what the options are. the menu is actually going to diminish as time goes on and choices we'll have to make will be even more draconian as we pile up more and more debt....
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. >> you're saying that barack obama meeting with john boehner and mitch mcconnell doesn't quite get readers as excited? >> not as titillating. >> this is what the election was fought over and yet i have the impression that a lot of the country is yawning but really many of the journalists covering the story are oning. >> there's a story about low how the mighty are falling. privacy, security, while covering the sex. >> are you suggesting that the bigger issues are actually a bit of a shall we say figure lea le? there are bigger issues there but the problem is the fiscal cliff is extremely important. it's interesting to me that it's ben bernanke who dubbed it. i would have thought a reporter would have dubbed it. >> as a consumer of newses, when you see stories about the fiscal cliff do you go clicking off to someone else? >> no. i don't. i try. i try my darnest. i pick up the stories and think i'm going to understand it for once. it's a big, big story if you're covering economic on a national stage. i think it is getting covered a lot yochl ku. blame the media if readers are going t
. >> you're saying that barack obama meeting with john boehner and mitch mcconnell doesn't quite get readers as excited? >> not as titillating. >> this is what the election was fought over and yet i have the impression that a lot of the country is yawning but really many of the journalists covering the story are oning. >> there's a story about low how the mighty are falling. privacy, security, while covering the sex. >> are you suggesting that the bigger issues are...
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i don't know many republicans who agree with mitch mcconnell. this is the guy who said his number one political goal was to get obama out of office. i think it's all positioning. you have got a bunch of democrats and mcconnell positioning themselves for negotiation. martha: tucker, what do you think? >> i think the republicans are being outnegotiated by an incredibly aggressive democratic party. they are demanding tax hikes on highest earner. an elevation in the debt limit which is $16.4 trillion. they want to increase spending and they want no cuts to entitlements which are what are driving the debt and deficit. the republicans are attacking grover more gift. grover -- grover norquist. one side is going to win because it's united, highly aggressive and reckless. >> they said they would reform entitlements later -- >> come on ... martha: later? how many things have we said we are going to do later? it's so ridiculous it makes you want to jump over the fiscal cliff. in terms of raising the debt limit again. let me put this out there. the reason f
i don't know many republicans who agree with mitch mcconnell. this is the guy who said his number one political goal was to get obama out of office. i think it's all positioning. you have got a bunch of democrats and mcconnell positioning themselves for negotiation. martha: tucker, what do you think? >> i think the republicans are being outnegotiated by an incredibly aggressive democratic party. they are demanding tax hikes on highest earner. an elevation in the debt limit which is $16.4...
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republicans senator mitch mism the leader in the senate -- mitch mcconnell blasted the president of saying he is doing is too much campaigning and not governing. take a listen. >> it is over. he won. congratulations. we have a hard deadline here however. and it is still, he is still out on the campaign trail, kind of celebrating. this is the problem. if the president really wants to reach an dwreechlt he needs to be talking with members of his own party right here in washington trying to broker an agreement, not out there firing up crowds and giving speeches. >> reporter: now the bottom line when you listen to comments like that it is pretty clear both sides are digging in pretty tough. not a lot of progress in these talks. and what is interesting republican senator tom coburn said on fox earlier this morning look, either both sides will come together and solve this or the markets will solve it for them. jon: the markets have not been happy with all the dithering in washington. ed henry. >> reporter: good to see you, jon. jenna: the man accused of leaking classified documents to wikileaks.
republicans senator mitch mism the leader in the senate -- mitch mcconnell blasted the president of saying he is doing is too much campaigning and not governing. take a listen. >> it is over. he won. congratulations. we have a hard deadline here however. and it is still, he is still out on the campaign trail, kind of celebrating. this is the problem. if the president really wants to reach an dwreechlt he needs to be talking with members of his own party right here in washington trying to...
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. >> people like mitch mcconnell said, well, you know, i'm not -- i don't know anything about where he was born. i don't have anything to tell you about that. i mean, come on, can't you say he was born -- >> what were you about to say? >> no, just kidding. i have a whole riff on that. >> sure, it's better. >> it's not just the newspapers, but the naturalization service tracking obama's father that period, every week, wanting to kick him out of the country, and if he left, he would have never got back in, and the hospital, where obama was born, that week a journalist took one of the famous doctors there out for lunch and asked, well, what interesting happened in your life this week, and she said, well, stanley had a baby. stanley is the mother's name. it's not every week that stanley has a baby. >> before i get to ron, the, you know, you all just opened up a discussion about sort of the conspirator echo chamber on the far right blogosphere and everything else. i have a new theory. i used to think that, talk radio, and some elements of, you know, fox or whatever it may be, were really he
. >> people like mitch mcconnell said, well, you know, i'm not -- i don't know anything about where he was born. i don't have anything to tell you about that. i mean, come on, can't you say he was born -- >> what were you about to say? >> no, just kidding. i have a whole riff on that. >> sure, it's better. >> it's not just the newspapers, but the naturalization service tracking obama's father that period, every week, wanting to kick him out of the country, and if...
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mitch mcconnell has said we're not raising taxes to ransom the pentagon budget cuts, and interestingly, a lot of focus has been on the pentagon. that these are a lot more concerned about the 50 billion in domestic discretion spending restraint every year and the arts are on the defense budget and you did see the republican study committee, the conservative caucus within republican house which is majority of house members, maybe 60% announce one thing worse than sequestration would be that having to save his. so this stampede that was attempted, from is stamping their own to people trying to start the stampede, and it didn't take. you didn't get a demand that the defense budget remain untouched, either in public opinion or in the house and the senate. so i think sequestration happens, don't think i could imagine is if, they were both rather to get out of entitlements and out of the annual budgets. could they cut a deal where they say the same amount of money but out of entitlements? that's the only compromise that i could see. and then you get to the grand bargain idea which i always th
mitch mcconnell has said we're not raising taxes to ransom the pentagon budget cuts, and interestingly, a lot of focus has been on the pentagon. that these are a lot more concerned about the 50 billion in domestic discretion spending restraint every year and the arts are on the defense budget and you did see the republican study committee, the conservative caucus within republican house which is majority of house members, maybe 60% announce one thing worse than sequestration would be that...
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. >> even people like mitch mcconnell were one point saying i don't know anything about where he was born. i don't have anything to tell you about that. come on, can't you say obviously he was born -- >> i've got a whole riff on that. it's not just the honolulu newspapers. if the immigration and nationalization service attracted obama's father and his whole theory every week and wanted to kick him out of the country of the left to go to kenya with the baby that he never would've gotten back in. and it was the hospital where obama was born. that week a journalistic one of the famous doctors there are for lunch and ask you what interesting happened in your life this week? she said well, stanley had a baby. stanley is the mother's name. it's not every week or stanley has a baby. >> you know, you've all had just opened up a discussion about started the conspiratorial at the chamber on the far right lotusphere and everything else. i have a new dairy. i used to think that that talk radio and some elements have come you know, fox or whatever it may be were really helping the republican part
. >> even people like mitch mcconnell were one point saying i don't know anything about where he was born. i don't have anything to tell you about that. come on, can't you say obviously he was born -- >> i've got a whole riff on that. it's not just the honolulu newspapers. if the immigration and nationalization service attracted obama's father and his whole theory every week and wanted to kick him out of the country of the left to go to kenya with the baby that he never would've...